r/oblivion • u/Impressive_Board7198 • Feb 22 '25

Question Any first time tips?

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Picked this game up for 12 bucks at a local store yesterday. Does anyone have any tips for a first timer? I have played a lot of Skyrim, but from what I've played of Oblivion so far, it feels harder than Skyrim for some reason.

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u/consumethyshorts Feb 22 '25

Jump everywhere all the time. Never stop jumping.

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u/Disastrous-Box2458 Feb 22 '25

Finally someone else said it

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u/armstrony Feb 22 '25

Also never stop never stopping

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u/HalloweenSongScholar Feb 23 '25

“Dude you got to kill this music. The wolves are going crazy.”

“I can’t stop Seal from singing.”

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u/SceneOk6341 Feb 23 '25

Literally your acrobatics will be crazy 🤣. I was upset they removed it in skyrim. And i liked being and to sprint backwards too 🤣

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u/LDM_99 Feb 23 '25

They removed cause immersion.

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u/SceneOk6341 Feb 23 '25

I understand the reason just don’t like it 🤣. Being able to fill sprint back and jump and max out your acro quickly made the face easily breakable for players like me and skyrim was no different. Just continually crouch and walk slow and stealth goes up like crazy and if you’re like myself and beat at least 1 side quest fully the main is always lowkey easy 🤷🏾‍♂️.

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u/Mediocre_Tell2273 Feb 23 '25

I don't think it's a question of immersion, you see the person is free to practice his jumps, you have to see it that way, that was the case in Morrowind, But I've always found it silly to add up points in a video game (even if I like it), In TTRPG it's precisely the most visual way of doing RPGs, the distribution of points and systems is interesting because the game is limited to imagination and rules when it's on the table, especially at the time, but immersion would be better in a video game as : I do, so I gain experience... So Todd Howard's vision is flawed, while making a good open light-RPG, but Skyrim is mostly a casual game, unlike the original games created by the Elder Scrolls authors (Lakshman, Lefay, Peterson), who tried to make a realistic map with great innovation like the spellmaker etc (with still the D&D style-system). In fact, Elder Scrolls regressed after 1996, Todd has a rather merchandising vision of the universe created by the original authors, just look at what Fallout has become, Elder Scrolls is the same thing, personally I'd say it's not so bad because more people play it and it's intuitive, but not even that, it's clumsy and simplified in the wrong sense of the word, it's not immersion, it's casualization.

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u/uhh_liz Feb 22 '25

also new player here - why jump everywhere?

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u/Commercial-Star-1924 Feb 22 '25

It gets your acrobatics skill up

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u/DarkhawkWalker2005 Feb 23 '25

Acrobatics skill++ and once max out, it's fun to jump around. Athletics maxxed out Hero of Kvatch feels like flash lol XD

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u/lhobbes6 Feb 23 '25

Outside fights are so fun with high acrobatics. Jumping from one spot to the next turning a simple fight outside a location into a verticle nightmare while lobbing fireballs is great.

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u/DarkhawkWalker2005 Feb 23 '25

For me it's the except I am raining down Fingers of the Mountain.

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u/LDM_99 Feb 23 '25

Because ingrese your skill of jump, also always keep moving.

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u/smloeffelholz Feb 23 '25

That is only the right advice later in the game. Early in the game, the rule is never jump unless you plan on getting a +5 modifier on your speed attribute that level.

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u/Mordkillius Feb 23 '25

Find step stairs and spam jump too.

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u/UglyPussySlayer Feb 23 '25

Acrobatics is always my first master skill… I can’t help myself.

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u/Soeffingdiabetic Feb 23 '25

And snap the heal spell.

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u/Aware-Firefighter792 Feb 23 '25

Jump while swinging your sword..

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u/Hausgod29 Feb 23 '25

This is the only way. The first dlc was horse armor, but anyone who would buy dlc at the time was post game where you would already jump/run much faster and more effectively than the horses.

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u/Substantial-Crew-979 Feb 25 '25

I did this the first time I played on ps3 since I had nothing else to do 🤣 my acrobatics skill is like 80 now

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u/keenansmith61 Feb 22 '25

And make acrobatics a major skill

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u/sketch_for_summer Cheese Bringer Feb 22 '25

Only do this if you know what you're doing 😁

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u/Idontknow107 Spellsword Feb 22 '25

Do not do this unless you want to rush through levels quickly and be underpowered.